Dayzikah; Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr, a grandson of Baḥrawayh; Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hāmūshah; Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān, the agent; Abū ʿAmr Shaybān ibn Muḥammad al-Jarqawī; Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mandah; Abū al-Qāsim Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUklī; Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, the merchant; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Dulaylī; ʿUmar ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān, the goldsmith; ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, the weigh-master; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ardastānī; Abū al-Ṭayyib ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn ʿUmar ibn Shammah; Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Aḥmad al-Baqqāl; Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, the scribe; and Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Tānī.
Ibn Mardawayh said in his History: “He is trustworthy, reliable, a man of foundational works.”
Abū Nuʿaym said: “A great traditionist, dependable, the possessor of Musnads; he heard an amount that cannot be numbered.”
Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd related: “I heard Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ say, ‘I travelled through the East and the West four times.’”
Two men narrated from Ibn al-Muqriʾ that he said, “Because of the copy of Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah I walked seventy stages; had it been offered to a baker for a single loaf, he would not have accepted it.”
Abū Ṭāhir ibn Salamah said: “I heard Ibn al-Muqriʾ say, ‘I entered Jerusalem ten times, performed the pilgrimage four times, and resided in Mecca for twenty-five months.’”
It is also related from Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī that Ibn al-Muqriʾ used to say, “I, al-Ṭabarānī and Abū al-Shaykh were in Medina when our provisions ran out. We fasted that whole day, and when the time for the night prayer arrived I went to the Prophet’s grave and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah…’”